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Plot
The film, directed by Ang Lee, is about a 16-year old boy named
Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian immigrant living in Montreal,
Canada, who suffers a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is
stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal
tiger named Richard Parker. The film tells us the story of the two'srelationship, and their journey to shore. The film is based on the
novel ‘Life of Pi’, written by Yann Martel.
Cast
Pi - the character Pi is played by 4 different people, all playing him in different stages of his life.
Suraj Sharma
Irrfan Khan
Ayush Tandon
Gautam Belur
Tabassum Hashmi - Gita, Pi's Mother
Adil Hussain - Santosh, Pi's FatherGérard Depardieu - The Cook
Rafe Spall – The Writer
Production
The film was directed by Ang Lee, and based on a screenplay by David Magee. The film was
produced by Ang Lee, Gil Netter and David Womark. The Fox 2000 Pictures and Rhythm & Hues
studios were both used for the film, with the R&H studios working on the 3D effects. Principal
photography began for the film on the 18th January 2011, Filming took place in India, Taiwan and
Canada. The musical score from the film was composed by Mychael Danna. The film was distributed
by 20th Century Fox.
Reception
The film was released in the US on the 21th November 2012. The film had its worldwide premiere as
the opening film of the 50th New York Film Festival in both the Walter Reade Theatre and Alice Tully
Hall on September 28, 2012. So far, the film has earned $306,753,346 in the box office, with the first
weekend of its release bringing in over $30 million. Life of Pi has received very favourable reviews
from critics, garnering a score of 89% on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Here are a few quotes from
critic’s reviews and interviews of the film:
“There is always a poetic aesthetic that Lee brings to his best work — the brutal martial arts ballet of
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or the homophobic hatred against the backcountry grandeur of
Brokeback Mountain, which would win him an Oscar for directing in 2006. In Life of Pi, certainly givenits technological achievements, the filmmaker has raised the bar. Not since James Cameron's
breathtaking blue Avatar in 2009 has 3-D had such impact”
Betsey Sharkey, Los Angeles Times
“Life of Pi breaks the paradigm that 3-D has to be some big, action fantasy spectacle, superhero
movie [....] The movie is visually amazing, inventive, and it works on you in ways you’re not really
aware of. It takes you on a journey, and unless you’ve read the book -- which I hadn’t -- you have no
idea where that journey is going. It does what good 3-D is supposed to do, which is, it allows you to
forget you’re watching a 3-D movie.”
James Cameron, Director